Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Future-making and Social-ecological Transformation in Rural Africa Detlef Müller-Mahn and Michael Bollig Part 1: Bringing Future-Making into Perspective - African Perspectives and the Decolonial Turn 1 Black/African Imaginations of the Future Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2 Conceptual Decolonization in African Universities: An Imperative for Shaping African Futures Martin Ajei Part Two: Technologies, imaginaries, and practices of future-making in rural Africa 3 'In technology we trust': Digital Visions and their Implications for Agricultural Futures in Eastern Africa Astrid Matejcek, Rupert Neuhöfer, Julian Rochlitz, and Julia Verne 4 Green Futures and National Planning: Rhetoric and Reality in Rural East Africa Eric M. Kioko, Detlef Müller-Mahn, and Maxmillian J. Chuhila 5 The Growth-Corridor Vision and its Realities - Regional Economic Impacts in Namibia and Tanzania Javier Revilla Diez, Peter Dannenberg, Carolin Hulke, Linus Kalvelage, Gideon Tups, and Richard Mbunda 6 The Making of an Energy Resource Periphery? Scalar Politics, Frontier Dynamics, and Future-Making in Northern Kenya Clemens Greiner, Britta Klagge, Kennedy Mkutu, and Frankline Ndi 7 Africa, The Conservation Continent? Future-Making and the Globalization of Wildlife Protection Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Michael Bollig Part Three For prayer, profit, and persistence - aspirations and hope in the future-making in rural Africa 8 Gendered African Futures and Extreme Climate Events in Turkana, Kenya Maggie Opondo, Gilbert Ouma, Anne Oketch, and Dennis Ong'ech 9 Reimagining Africa's Rural Futures in the Age of Mobile Money Prince K Guma 10'Joining the church' as a Form of Future-making? Il Chamus Christians' Futural Orientations in Baringo County, Northern Kenya Dorothea Schulz, Uros Kovac 11 The Politics of Anticipation in East Africa's Rangelands Ian Scoones, Tahira Shariff Mohamed, and Masresha Taye Epilogue: African Futures and the Way Forward Detlef Müller-Mahn and Michael Bollig Index.